By Jim Lynch 8 free alternatives to Windows and MacOS Windows has its virtues, but many people simply don’t like it and don’t want it running on their computers. Nor do they wish to …read more Source:: OpenSource
Month: March 2017
Mesosphere DC/OS brings elastic scale to Redis, Couchbase
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•By Serdar Yegulalp Mesosphere DC/OS, the datacenter automation solution built atop the Apache Mesos orchestration system to provide one-click management for complex applications, has now hit its 1.9 revision. With …read more Source:: OpenSource
Russian antitrust regulator finds Apple fixed iPhone prices
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•Apple’s Russian subsidiary has been found to be fixing the prices of certain iPhone models in Russia. …read more Source:: Legal
IDG Contributor Network: Is Windows 10 an operating system or an advertising platform?
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•By Jim Lynch Is Windows 10 an operating system or an advertising platform? Windows 10 has certainly gotten its share of lumps since it was released. Some users really liked it, while other detested …read more Source:: OpenSource
LLVM coroutines come to C++, await Swift and Rust
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•By Serdar Yegulalp LLVM, the open source compiler framework that’s used as part of the toolchain for languages like Rust and Swift, was bumped up to version 4.0 this week. The most …read more Source:: OpenSource
IDG Contributor Network: Linux: The best distros for newbies?
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•By Jim Lynch Linux: The best distros for newbies? Linux offers an amazing range of distributions for all users, but for newbies it can be difficult to decide which distro to start with on …read more Source:: OpenSource
Discover the power of Bash on Windows
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•By Adam Bertram Microsoft Windows may be the dominant player on the desktop, but the rapidly increasing open source software market—especially for admin and dev tools—clearly favors Linux. Not to mention the mobile …read more Source:: OpenSource
Volkswagen pleads guilty to criminal conduct in emissions scandal
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•The company has admitted to obstructing justice in an earlier settlement with US prosecutors. …read more Source:: Legal
Australian government has no issue with agencies demanding telco data outside metadata laws
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•The Attorney-General’s Department does not consider agencies using their own statutes to demand data from telcos as a loophole. …read more Source:: Legal
Apache Struts bug is under attack, patch now
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•By Fahmida Y. Rashid Apache Software Foundation has patched a remote code execution vulnerability affecting the Jakarta Multipart parser in Apache Struts. Administrators need to update the popular Java application framework or put workarounds …read more Source:: OpenSource